From: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:44:38 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Make NEWS entry and manual regarding GDBHISTSIZE more consistent
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0eacb2983d96fd7f12a1400a66450c1a89578f00;p=binutils-gdb.git

Make NEWS entry and manual regarding GDBHISTSIZE more consistent

... by mentioning in the manual that setting GDBHISTSIZE to the empty
string disables truncation, like the NEWS entry does.

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:

	* gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting
	GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation.
---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index d38550a4d92..7d8002e895b 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-06-17  Patrick Palka  <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
+
+	* gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting
+	GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation.
+
 2015-06-17  Patrick Palka  <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
 
 	PR gdb/16999
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 9889b695c97..c9a532a366f 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -22641,9 +22641,9 @@ Stop recording command history in a file.
 Set the number of commands which @value{GDBN} keeps in its history list.
 This defaults to the value of the environment variable @env{GDBHISTSIZE}, or
 to 256 if this variable is not set.  Non-numeric values of @env{GDBHISTSIZE}
-are ignored.  If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is a
-negative number, the number of commands @value{GDBN} keeps in the history list
-is unlimited.
+are ignored.  If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is
+either a negative number or the empty string, then the number of commands
+@value{GDBN} keeps in the history list is unlimited.
 @end table
 
 History expansion assigns special meaning to the character @kbd{!}.